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Scott, I just watched your fascinating and excellent TedX talk and really appreciate your perspectives. I’ll start by admitting that I struggle with the concepts of quantum computing and found it very hard to simplify these. I have read your criticisms of journalists who have had the same issue and your frustrations with the deficiency.
As far as the traveling salesman problem goes, the person I learned of this from, a few years ago is Michelle Simmons, director of the Centre for Quantum Computation & Communication Technology, University of NSW. This TedX talk that she gave was brilliant and I wrote to her to thank her for opening my eyes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cugu4iW4W54. She repeated this example in a recent piece in ZDNet: http://www.zdnet.com/article/australias-ambitious-plan-to-wi... I also consulted a couple of other gurus and no one raised issue with this example.
If you give me a better way of explaining how quantum computers work I will surely use that. But I find your comparison of this to my criticism of Bitcoin’s demise as a digital currency to be unprofessional and petty. Surely you don’t have to resort to such nastiness.
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That was a pretty great response, and he's right. Scott does come across as petty, and as someone you would never want to work with. Vivek might have been wrong, but he had done a reasonable amount of homework on this - far more than Scott had mistakenly assumed. This discussion would have been far more productive if Scott had dedicated a thousand words towards educating people about QC, rather than belittling someone personally.